Cherry Picked Pop Up Pamper Parlour

So girls, it's all busy busy right now to finalise details for the very first, Cherry Picked Styling event. My pop-up pamper parlour will be visiting various venues around London on, hopefully, a monthly basis from the 30th June onwards.

MAKEOVERS - TO BOOK, PLEASE CONTACT NICOLA ON cherrypickedstyling@yahoo.co.uk. We only have a limited number of slots available so get in quick!

CLOTHES SWAPPING

I want to make sure we all take treasures not trash home with us so clothes will be graded according to their quality and points awarded accordingly.

Please don't bring anything that is stained or in bad condition. Minor repairs/alterations are ok but it would be good if you could make this obvious on the garment e.g. pin a note to it or something.

Please don't bring more than 8 items per person.

You will only be able to swap an item of one grade for one of its own. So if you are given 25 points for boots that are graded Mid, and 20 points for a dress graded Mid, you have 45 points to spend on anything in the Mid category.

Gradings are:

High Street Low (H&M, Primark),
High Street Mid (Topshop, Bershka, Zara, Mango etc.). Vintage will also be included in the Mid range unless it's designer.
High Street High End (Karen Millen, Ted Baker, All Saints etc.)
Designer


Points will be awarded as follows:

Boots 25 points
Shoes 20 points
Dresses 20 points
Jeans 25 points
Belts (leather) 5 points
Belts (non leather) 3 points
Handbags 10 points
Scarfs 3 points
Jewellery 2 points

Anything left at the end will be given to charity unless you spot something of yours at the end that you want to take back with you.

Hope this all sounds fair?!!

In the meantime, don't forget to buy your ticket.

It's not just election time

Was it Shakespeare who said
What’s in a name? David Cameron by any other
Name would smell of slime and deceit
But what shall we do when, as deserved,
Gordon Brown’s gonna lose his seat
And the Liberal Democrats seem
Quite frankly, weak.

Vote Green you might say,
Save the Planet come what may
But can they keep the world at bay
When the Japanese wanna eat Whales all day
And there’s a war going on in Afghanistan
With us Brits and the US of A
That no one’s gonna win.

Truth is can’t trust none of ‘em
They’re all out for themselves each and every one
They got their own agendas,
Their own wallets to fill,
And they don’t care ‘bout no national bill
Cos for sure they’re on the payroll
A steady income that’ll grow.

But it’s for our homeless I worry
And the miners who no longer quarry.
The kids without jobs and the
Man who no longer drives his lorry.
Or the pensioner who in their winter home freezes
And asylum seekers brought here
Under false pretences.

Our rubbish bins over flow
With the melting glaciers which show
The warming of our planet
They used to think was slow.
The mountains will fall
And the rivers run red
With the blood of the dead.
For the nature of human beings is such
That God, Buddha, Allah etcetera or not
There’s always some excuse to
Destroy our lot.